We The People Foundation

Continental Congress 2009

Part 1
Welcome and
Pledge of Allegiance
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of
government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
-Thomas Jefferson

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 Bob Schulz, Chairman
Biography
EDUCATION:
 Engineering Degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy
 Masters Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University
 Ph. D. Coursework in Public Administration, Graduate School of Public
Affairs, SUNY, Albany

CAREER:
 Key leadership positions at General Electric
 New York and Connecticut State Government
 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
 Wall Street Prudential-Bache
 CEO management consulting group
 Talk Show Host at WROW in Albany, New York
 “Freedom Keeper”–Over 30 Years, Litigation Re Unconstitutional Acts

PERSONAL:
 Wife, Four Children, Nine Grandchildren, Lake George, NY 40 Years

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 Introduction and History
We The People Foundation
HISTORY:
 We The People Foundation was incorporated in 1997 in New York
 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization
 Provides Constitutional Education to the General Public
 Protects and Defends America’s Federal and State Constitutions
 Not concerned with Politics or Personalities in Public Office
 Objective is to return America to its Founding Principles

RECENT INITIATIVES:
 Questioning the Federal Government’s Abuse of its Constitutional Powers
• Debt Based, Fiat Currency
• Taxing Labor
• Private Bailouts
• Undeclared Wars
• Election Integrity
• Police State

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 Introduction and History
We The People Congress
HISTORY:
 We The People Congress was incorporated in 1997 in New York
 501(c)4 Non-Profit Organization
 Based on Life’s Work of Thomas Jefferson
 Nationwide, Non-Partisan Membership Organization
 Organized into State and County “Ward Republics”

RECENT INITIATIVES:
 Constitutional Activists Committed to “Institutionalizing" Citizen Vigilance
• Civic Education
• Government Monitoring
• Organizing Grassroots Movements
• Demonstrating Peaceful Civic Resistance
 Resurrecting the 1st Amend “Capstone Right” to Petition For Redress
 Continental Congress 2009

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 Introduction and History
Continental Congress
HISTORY:
The first Continental Congress which was convened in Philadelphia’s
Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774 sought to right the wrongs that had
been inflicted upon the Colonies by Britain. Comprised of delegates elected
by the people and colonial parliament, the delegates debated and discussed
their respective state’s interests and developed a statement of
principles that were common to all Colonies.
The Second Continental Congress followed in May 10, 1775, shortly
after the start of the American Revolutionary War. The majority of the
delegates who attended the first meeting, also attended the second.
In July, 1776, the Resolution of Independence was drafted and was
followed by the United States Declaration of Independence. In the
years that followed, the Colonies agreed on the Articles of
Confederation, held a Constitutional Convention and ratified the
United States Constitution.
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 Introduction and History
Continental Congress 2009
REPEATING HISTORY:
The 2009 Continental Congress is being organized to allow
delegates, three from each state, to represent their state’s
interests and to discuss the Constitutional violations and the
People’s repeated attempts to Petition for Redress.
Comprised of 150 elected citizen representatives, the delegates
will agree upon a peaceful course of action that will put the power
back into the hands of “We The People,” restore our freedoms and
preserve our Constitutional Republic.
More details relating to the Continental Congress and how it
will advance the causes of other like-minded, Patriotic
Groups and Organizations will be discussed in Part 2 and in
the Citizen Networking Session in Part 3.

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 Question for The Audience
What Motivated You To Attend This Meeting?
GENERAL CONCERNS:
 Recent Job Loss and/or Rising Unemployment
 Loss of Home Value
 Credit Crisis and/or the Ability to Qualify for a Home Loan
 Crippling Tax Increases
 Rising Costs of Operating a Small Business
 Instability of the Stock Market
 Losses to 401K and Other Investments
 Expanding Role of Federal Government
 Risks to State Sovereignty
 Taxpayer-Funded Loans and Bailouts to Private Industries
 Pork-Filled Legislation Disguised as Economic Stimulus
 Federal Reserve, Fiat Currency and a Central Banking System
 Amnesty Proposals and Federally Funded Programs for Illegal Aliens
 Presidential Eligibility “Natural Born Citizen”
 Infringement of Right to Bear Arms
 Fear of Martial Law

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 Explanation
Unconstitutional Conduct and
Lack of Governmental Accountability
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT:
 Federal Income Tax
 Federal Reserve and Bailouts
 Iraq Resolution
 Patriot Act
 North American Union
 Illegal Immigration
 Gun Control Laws
 Computerized Vote Counting

LACK OF GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABLITY:

• Repeated Failure to Respond to the People’s Petitions for Redress
• Failure to Account for and Appropriately Use Taxpayer Funds
• Failure to Honor Freedom of Information Requests
• Failure to Verify the Presidential Eligibility of Candidates
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 Citizenship
Duties and Responsibilities

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

 We must Exercise our Duties as Citizens
 Understanding our Duty is as Important as Comprehending our Rights
 Citizenship allows us to be Part of a Society
 We exist for the good of Ourselves and our Society as a Whole
 Citizenship requires the execution of our Responsibilities
 Citizenship requires adherence to our Constitution

It shall be the duty of every citizen of the United States of

America to abide by, protect and preserve our Constitution, to
respect the ideals of our Founding Fathers and to create
institutions that provide law and order in our society in
preservation of our Constitutional Republic.
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 A Call to Action
Restore Our Constitutional Republic

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

Fellow Citizens,
If you are ready to perform your duties and
responsibilities as Citizens of our Great Country, please

STAND UP

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 Citizen Action Form
For those of you STANDING, thank you for making a commitment to take
the action that is needed to preserve Our Constitutional Republic.

We realize everyone of you standing has limited time due to outside

obligations, however, we believe you are here today because you realize
that if we don’t start working together, we won’t have a Constitutional
Republic or a United States of America to stand up for in the future.
Please be seated and take the next 5 minutes to complete the Citizen
Action Form that we have included in your information packet. This form
will help us determine how much time you have available, and what type of
action you are committed to taking. We need both leaders and people to
work behind the scenes, so please commit to doing what you can.

Please bring your completed CITIZEN ACTION FORM up to the front

before you leave for BREAK. Thank you for your cooperation.

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 We The People Foundation
Continental Congress 2009
Part 2
People’s Right To
Petition For Redress

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 History and Background
People’s Right To Petition For Redress
THE MAGNA CARTA - ENGLISH COMMON LAW:
“If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any
respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of
this security, and the offence is made known to four of the said twenty-five
barons, they shall come to us - or in our absence from the kingdom to the
chief justice - to declare it and claim immediate redress.

If we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, make no redress within forty
days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to
him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five
barons, who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the
support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands,
possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the
queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have
determined upon. Having secured the redress, they may then resume their
normal obedience to us.”

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 History and Background
People’s Right To Petition
1774 Act, Journals of the Continental Congress
(unanimously passed)

“ If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any

manner oppressed the People, they may retain it
until their grievances are redressed, and thus
peaceably procure relief, without trusting to
despised petitions or disturbing the public
tranquility."
- Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113

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 History and Background
People’s Right To Petition

Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:225.

“The privilege of giving or withholding our money is an
important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative
which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our
great oppression; and all history shows how efficacious its
intercession for redress of grievances and establishment of
rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so
powerful a mediator."
-Thomas Jefferson

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 History and Background
People’s Right to Petition
REPEATED INJURY:
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned
for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated
Petitions have been answered only by with repeated
injury.
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a Tyrant, is thus unfit to be the ruler of
a free people….”
-Declaration of Independence 1776

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 New Hampshire Constitution
People’s Right To Revolution
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.]

“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection,

and security, of the whole community, and not for the private
interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men;
therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and
public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress
are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old,
or establish a new government.
The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and
oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and
happiness of mankind.”
June 2, 1784

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 Explanation
People’s Right to Petition

RIGHT TO PETITION :
“Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
freedom of the press; or the Right of the People
peaceably to assemble, and to Petition the government
for a redress of grievances.”
- FIRST AMENDMENT, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION-1791

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 Explanation
People’s Right to Petition
The Right to Petition is a distinctive, substantive Right, from
which other substantive First Amendment Rights were
derived. The Rights to free speech, press and assembly
originated as derivative Rights insofar as they were
necessary to protect the preexisting Right to Petition.

• Free speech Rights first developed because members of Parliament

needed to discuss freely the Petitions they received.
• Publications reporting Petitions were the first to receive protection from
the frequent prosecutions against the press for seditious libel.
• Public meetings to prepare Petitions led to recognition of the Right of
Public Assembly.

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 Timeline
People’s Petitions For Redress
 PETITION 1 (1995): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the
Bailout of the Mexican Peso in violation of the Money Clauses
 PETITION 2 (1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the
Bombing of Kosovo Without a Congressional Declaration of War
 PETITION 3 (July 1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor
 PETITION 4 (April 2000): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating
to the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor
 PETITION 5 (July 2001): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor
 PETITION 6 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
Iraq Resolution
 PETITION 7 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
the USA Patriot Act and the “War on Terrorism”
 PETITION 8 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
the Federal Reserve System
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 Timeline
People’s Petitions For Redress
 PETITION 9 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor
 PETITION 10 (March 2003): Petition for Redress of Grievances
Relating to Forced Withholding of Pay
 PETITION 11 (July 2004): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating
to abuse of Accountability (Redress) Clause of the 1st Amend.
 PETITION 12 (2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to
Computerized Vote Counting
 PETITION 13 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances
Regarding Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms
 PETITION 14 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances
Regarding the North American Union
 PETITION 15 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances
Regarding the failure of the President to enforce the Immigration Laws.

Read More About the Petitions Served On The Government

www.GiveMeLiberty.org/Revolution
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 Overview
Supreme Court Action
In July 2004 almost two thousand ordinary Americans filed suit in
federal court asking the judiciary to declare - for the first time in
history - the constitutional meaning of the First Amendment
Petition clause.

Why won't the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what

the last ten words of the First Amendment really
mean?
…. and to Petition the government for a redress of
grievances.”

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 Purpose and Overview
Continental Congress 2009
Mission:
The Mission of the Continental Congress is to end and reverse
violations of the Constitution of the United States of America by
educating Americans on the issue of petitions for redress. We will
do this by acting in a proactive, non-violent, constitutionally
based course of action to restore the original intent of our
Founding Fathers for the free people of our Constitutional
Republic.

Who? The People’s Representatives (3 Delegates Elected from Each State)

What? End and Reverse Constitutional Violations
When? 2009
Where? TBD
How? Proactive, Non-Violent, Constitutionally Based Course of Action
Why? Restore the Original Intent of Our Founding Fathers
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 Purpose and Overview
Continental Congress 2009
Vision:
The ultimate Vision is to create a platform in which
representatives from each of the United States can progress
through a course of deliberations and discussions and develop
a renewed commitment to our Constitution and Declaration of
Independence. Delegates will determine and acknowledgement
the repeated violations against the Constitution which threaten
our Republic. Delegates will review the People’s repeated
efforts to petition the Government for a Redress of Grievance
and determine the most appropriate, non-violent,
constitutionally based course of action to address and resolve
the people’s concerns. The Continental Congress will become a
major catalyst through which the people of America will seek
Constitutional obedience from elected officials, create greater
governmental accountability and a complete restoration of our
Constitutional Republic.

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 Q&A
Continental Congress
2009

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 A Call for LEADERS to Help
Restore Our Constitutional Republic
Fellow Citizens,
If we’ve learned anything from the Nov 4, 2008 election, we’ve learned how
a coordinated grassroots movement can effectively change the
course of a Nation.
If you are concerned about where our Nation is heading, and you have
an interest in taking the LEAD to organize volunteers in your STATE or
COUNTY in an effort to take back our Country, please

Stand Up and Step Forward

Please take 5 minutes to complete the Meeting Evaluation Form
in your information packet and bring the completed form to the front
before you leave for the BREAK

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We The People Foundation
Continental Congress 2009
Part 3
Citizen Networking Session

Please Learn More:

We The People Foundation – www.wethepeoplefoundation.org
We The People Congress – www.wethepeoplecongress.org
Petition For Redress of Grievances – www.givemeliberty.org

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